Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Andrew Morton
2007-12-08T09:52:51Z

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been
> reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the
> mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me
> know.
>
> If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
> either and I'll add them to the list.
>
> ...
>
> Subject : cd/dvd inaccessible in 2.6.24-rc2
> Submitter : Will Trives <will@trivescon.com.au>
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/9/290
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9346
> Handled-By : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> Patch :
>

Nasty one. Tejun and several diligent reporters are doing sterling work
there and things have improved. I don't know whether any of Tejun's
patches have been merged yet, but we'll probably be OK on this one.

What is unclear (to me) is what actually caused those people's machines to
break?